Monday, July 7, 2014

MEETING 2C (REFLECTION) -Alternative mindset

People have diverse way of thinking in every angle of situation weather simple or complicated way of action. Mindset is an assumptions or   expectations which is held by an individual or more people or a group of people that established or create a powerful severe within these people or group to accept or  adapt to a prior behaviors, choices or tools. This spectacle is also sometimes described as standard and it is often difficult to lessen its effects upon analysis and decision making processes.
 Many people has a philosophy I life that and it may be seen as their mindset that keeps in each of one of us. People might able to think differently depending on what they really believe for. There are two kinds of mindset the usual mindset and the alternative mindset from that term we can identify the difference of the said mindset. We can identify it by what we have experience in the past happenings that we have been through. As an ordinary people we can define usual mindset as what our parents have always thinking for our future. To our dear parents they have the usual mindset that they will sent their children to the school and after graduating they should find a good job that has big compensation. It is a usual mindset of our parents but we all knows that finding job is such a challenging part as we live in the real world of people. Many people compete just to find a better job it is like selling yourself to be presentable and intelligent just to impress them. Nowadays finding job is really difficult, yes you may get a job but the only problem is that the compensation that you will receive is just too small to support yourself how much more if you’re married and has the family to sustained. It would be very difficult that’s why many people choose to go outside the country to earn a big amount of money. They intend to sacrifice their love ones because they love them and they don’t want their family to suffer in poverty. Yes we did study and do our duty as a student but it would not be easy as parents tend to think about us. Our parents did a lot of hardship in terms of working so hard just to let their children go to school but they have put in their minds that things would not be working as we want it. It needs time, patience and effort. Like me I am a working student who prefers to leave my parents in Bohol. So here I am trying to do things properly even if things go wrong and even if how rough my life was meant to be. I know life would not be easy as what we intend to expect but let’s just have faith and believe in our self that we can do this. It is just a test on how strong we are in facing problems like this. It is a natural thing that parents always wants the best for us but let them awaken and see the reality that life has brought for us.
                Many kinds of mindset has made a big rule of many people, different mindset helps to develop our personal thinking and made us realize a better belief. Alternative mindset is one of the important rational ways of thinking. It is a proper mindset that many people should have and understand. It is a practical way of thinking what is good and what the best for among of us. It nourished and awakens each one of us to think properly. According to Carol Dweck, individuals can be placed on a range according to their unspoken views of where ability comes from. Some believe their success is based on distinctive ability these are said to have a fixed theory of intelligence of fixed mindset. Others, who believe their success is based on having opposite mindset, which involves hard work, learning, training and perseverance are said to have a growth or an incremental theory of intelligence or growth mindset. Using their minds in a smarter way will really benefit themselves. Individuals may not necessarily be aware of their own mindset, but their mindset can still be distinguished based on their behavior. It is especially evident in their reaction to failure. We may have different behavior but it only depends on how you will use it and think in a better way. In alternative mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just usual or fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that's that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a growth mindset students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don't necessarily think everyone's the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it. Individuals with a alternative mindset are more likely to continue working hard despite setbacks. Hard working really helps in developing our self to have a better life and comfortable living. Having been in many years of studying we tend to mold our self to achieve our failures and gets determined to continue. Individuals' theories of intelligence can be affected by subtle environmental cues. For example, children given praise such as "good job, you're very smart" are much more likely to develop a fixed mindset, whereas if given compliments like "good job, you worked very hard" they are likely to develop a growth mindset. The defensive mindset, on the other hand, is self-protective and self-deceptive. When this mindset is active, people or organizations only seek out information that will protect them. Truth can be shut out when it is seen as threatening. The defensive mindset may lead to learning based on false assumptions or prevent learning altogether according to Argyris.

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